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== Metacharacters ==
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!colspan=2| Metacharacters Defined !!colspan=2| Metacharacter Examples
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! MChar !! Definition !! style="width:15%"|Pattern !!style="width:25%"| Sample Matches
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| ^ || Start of a string. || ^abc || abc, abcdefg, abc123, ...
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| + || 1 or more of previous expression. || ab+c || abc, abbc, abbbc, ...
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| ? || 0 or 1 of previous expression; also forces minimal matching when an expression might <br />match several strings within a search string. || ab?c || ac, abc
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| \ || Preceding one of the above, it makes it a literal instead of a special character. <br />Preceding a special matching character, see below. || a\sc || a c
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